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but another question and a very important one is raised. The New York Stock Exchange is today the only free securities market in the world. If it maintains that position it is sure to become perhaps the world's greatest center for the marketing of

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The New York Stock Exchange is located on Wall and Broad Streets in New York City. Construction of the current premises began in 1901 and opened on April 22, 1903. The exchange was closed shortly after the beginning of World War I (July 31, 1914), but it partially re-opened on November 28 of that year in order to help the war effort by trading bonds, and completely reopened for stock trading in mid-December.


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1. November 30, 1902 New-Yor Tribune cover touting the new Stock Exchange premises: "Brokers hope to have their housewarming of the new Stock Exchange on the first day of the new year".

2. Rumbles of discontent: The New York Bank Note Company's president George H. Kendall blamed the "theives of the New York Stock Exchange" for apparently shutting down his business after thirty years. Photograph taken or first published on February 12, 1913.

3. Irony and symbolism: between 1910 and 1915, building facades on Wall Street were shaved because they encroached on the public sidewalks.
(a) Photograph of the Wall Street District during the shavings.
(b) A contemporary New York Times article on the shavings (near bottom of scanned column).

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1. "Brokers hope to have their housewarming of the new Stock Exchange on the first day of the new year". New-York Tribune. November 30, 1902. Library of Congress Flickr Stream.

2. "New York Bank Note Co. notice". Created or first published on February 12, 1913. Library of Congress Flickr Stream.

3a. "Shaving Wall St. and Broad St." Ca. 1910-1915. Library of Congress Flickr Stream.

3b. "Trim Downtown Buildings," short news article from newspaper scan headed "Mrs. Eaton Indicted". The New York Times, March 28, 1913. Retrieved December 14, 2010 from nytimes.com.

File: ShavingWallStreetArticle.pdf

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